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Police are looking for the driver of a Honda Passport who fled after crashing an SUV into another vehicle on U.S. 30 near Astoria, critically injuring the other driver, police said.
Oregon State Police is asking anyone who might be able to identify the driver to contact their Northern Command Center at 800-452-7888.
According to preliminary information from the Oregon State Police, the crash occurred when a gray 1996 Honda Passport crossed the center line of U.S. 30 near milepost 88 and collided head-on with a 2002 Dodge Neon carrying three people.
A man was taken by helicopter to the hospital after he was pinned under his tractor that was hit by a car Friday morning in Canby.
Just after 9 a.m., the tractor driver was moving across the road from one field to another when he was hit from behind causing the tractor to flip, said Todd Gary with the Canby Fire District.
The operator freed himself and was treated by responding firefighters. He was then taken by Life Flight to the hospital. The driver of the car was not injured.
Oregon State Police and the Marion County Sheriff’s Office are investigating an accident in which a car went off Oregon 22 west of Detroit and plunged into Sardine Creek.
According to OSP, police were alerted to the crash at 1:28 p.m. Thursday. When they arrived, they found the vehicle, which had extensive front-end damage, in the middle of the stream.
Two people who had been in the car, a 2001 Toyota Avalon, were on the bank of the stream when first responders arrived. Both reportedly had suffered minor injuries and were taken to Santiam Hospital.
A Vancouver man was involved in a Friday morning crash that Oregon State Police say was caused by a dog in the southbound lanes of the Interstate 205 near Clackamas.
Minutes before 11:30 a.m., a couple of cars stopped for a German Shepherd in the southbound lanes of the freeway near milepost 12. Jack McKinley, 42, of Vancouver was driving a Chevrolet pickup, didn't notice the stopped vehicles and rear-ended a Mazda, which then rear-ended a Toyota before tumbling onto its top.
A Weston, Ore., man has died of the injuries he suffered last week in a Umatilla County traffic accident.
According to Oregon State Police, Montana Rex Batterton, 19, died Tuesday of the injuries he received in accident that took place last Thursday evening along Oregon 204, about two miles east of Oregon 11. Batterton had been taken to Providence St. Mary’s Medical Center in Walla Walla after the accident and then was transferred to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.
The driver and a passenger involved in a fatal DUII crash Sunday morning have been arrested.
Gawayne Streeter, 28, ran his Pontiac Grand Prix into a utility pole in Northeast Portland Sunday around 6 a.m., according to the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office.
Paul Williams, 24, of Portland was killed in the crash. He was a passenger in the vehicle.
Streeter and three other passengers suffered injuries, but they were not life-threatening, police said.